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In one of 26 prison grievances filed by Evan Ebel, he groused about poor prison hygiene even after smearing feces on cell doors.

The man accused of killing Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements and Nathan Leon filed another grievance castigating officers for injuring his face during a takedown after he hit an officer in the face.

And the 211 Crew member with Nazi and white supremacist tattoos all over his body complained about being kept in administrative segregation up to the end of his sentence.

The Department of Corrections this week released copies of the handwritten grievances Ebel filed, and they show an inmate complaining about missing laundry, repetitive radio song selections and a variety of other things. Throughout, he was unfailingly cordial, writing please and thank you in so-called "kites" that blasted DOC.

"Being known as a gang member was used as reason to retain me in ad seg ... How have I been actively participating in gang activity?" Ebel wrote in a grievance three days before he was paroled on Jan. 28.

"Do you have an obligation to the public to acclimatize 'dangerous' inmates to being around other human beings prior to releasing them into society after they have spent years in solitary confinement and if not why?"

Yet after his prison release Ebel proved he was still allying with gang members by establishing contact almost immediately with at least three 211 Crew members, each on parole themselves for felony crimes, according to El Paso County officials and one of the gang members. The contacts violated his parole.

Even while Ebel accumulated 28 disciplinary actions in prison, he continually blamed his captors for his prison misery, filing an avalanche of kites about everything from maintenance workers smearing grease from tools on his blanket to prison officials failing to meet his dietary demands. Most of his grievances were denied.

At one point, he complained about hearing the same songs over and over on a prison radio.

"The least you could do is give us a little variety of music to listen to so we could leave here w/ a small degree of our sanity intact," he wrote.

Ebel wrote grievances about not getting mail, not getting his medications, officers taking too long to give him a disciplinary write up, the cost of canteen foods and the variety of canteen foods.

Frequently Ebel's grievances chronicled his own troublesome prison history.

On Dec. 15, 2006, he filed a kite complaining about the way correctional officers wrestled him to the ground and injured him after he threatened to kill an officer and his family, hit him in the face and tried to slip out of handcuffs.

He asked that — at the very least — the $10 he was charged for medical treatment be reimbursed. He received four stitches above his left eye. He also had a bloody nose, split and swollen lips and many cuts on his face and body. Ebel said he was never checked for a concussion.

"It is my belief that this situation falls under the definition of cruel and unusual punishment and I would like to see it rectified. Thank you," he wrote in a subsequent kite.

In response, a correctional officer wrote that the use of force was justified.

"The situation you reference, involves you slipping the handcuffs and attempting and striking staff in the face," the response said. "Your actions warranted an immediate response from staff so that they could protect themselves from your assaultive behavior. Staff lowered you to the ground and controlled you."

On Oct. 8, 2008, Ebel wrote a kite after a disturbance he and two other inmates caused that correctional officers quelled by spraying a chemical agent in their faces. He filed a kite complaining that $5 was deducted from his prison account for a medical treatment. He demanded "immediate reimbursal."

"So let me get this straight. Even though I specifically asked not to be assessed your medical personnel went ahead and assessed me, against my will and wishes and charged for it," he wrote.

Ebel frequently filed kites after materials deemed racist were taken from his cell during shakedowns.

On Sept. 25, 2008, Ebel wrote a kite complaining that a magazine popular with Nazis, skinheads and white supremacists called "Resistance Spring 2007" was confiscated from his cell.

Ebel wrote that the reading committee may have "falsified the amount of pages which contained so called 'racial hatred' because they were prejudiced to the views expressed in said publication."

In 2009, Ebel wrote yet another grievance after three more "resistance" magazines were confiscated from his cell.

In response to Ebel's warning about releasing dangerous inmates from administrative segregation to the street for wrongly punishing him for non-existent gang behavior, a prison officer explained why he was kept in isolation.

"You have an assaultive history to include an assault on Feb. 17, 2012, while you were in unit 7 and were to be progressing out of administrative segregation," the prison grievance supervisor wrote. "It has been your continued negative behavior that has resulted in your retention in your current status."

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